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1 Anterograde amnesia may be caused by
- AFear
- BAnger
- CJoy
- DPain
- ENone of the above
2What is true about Korsakoff's Syndrome?
- AAlcoholic Korsakoff syndrome results from damage to the hippocampus
- BVery severe alcoholism is sufficient to cause Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
- CAlcoholism must be combined with poor eating to create a thiamine deficiency to cause it.
- DKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the fornix
- EAlcoholic-Korsakoff’s syndrome is followed by the Wernicke’s phase of the disorder.
3Suppose you ask someone with medial temporal amnesia to remember Phoenix.
- AFor about the next hour, she will be able to recall Phoenix.
- BFor about the next hour, she will recognize Phoenix, but will not recall it.
- CA few minutes later, she may say Phoenix when asked to name cities.
- DShe will recall being asked to remember Phoenix with confidence in response to the cue: city.
- EShe will recall being asked to remember Phoenix in response to the sound-alike cue: Fee.
4An individual who has suffered from severe Korsakoff's syndrome for the past 8 years can nevertheless learn
- Ato recognize his daily caretaker and surroundings
- Bto use cues to remember daily tasks
- Cto play a card game like bridge or rummey, well.
- Dto play new selections on the piano
- Eto use visual imagery to remember word lists at normal levels
5You ask a person with Alzheimer disease to remember the word leopard.
- AHe would recognize but not recall the word after a short filled delay.
- BHe would recall being asked to remember leopard with confidence in response to the cue cat.
- CWhen asked to generate animals, he would not show an increased probability of saying leopard after a short filled delay.
- DHe would recall being asked to remember leopard with confidence in response to the cue animal.
- EHe would recognize and recall the word after a short filled delay.
6Huntington's disease is the result of deterioration in part of the
- Athalamus
- Blimbic system
- Cbasal ganglia
- Dmemory cortex
- Etemporal cortex
7What are symptoms of Huntington's disease?
- AImpaired motor skill learning
- BImpaired verbal fluency
- CImpaired recall
- DAll of the above
- ENone of the above
8Alzheimer's disease is associated with
- Amany small strokes occuring over time throughout the cortex
- Bexcessive neural death as the result of aging
- Cgeneralized oxygen deprivation to the brain
- Da single large stroke blocking blood flow to the hyppocampus
- Eplaques and tangles forming in the cortex
9 When a 3-month old infant is trained to kick to a test mobile and is briefly shown that test mobile 13 days later as a reminder
- AThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 15 minutes after the reminder
- BThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 1 hour after the reminder
- CThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 72 hours after the reminder
- DThe infant kicks in response to a novel mobile when it is shown 72 hours after the reminder
- ENone of the above
10When immediate recognition of from one to six digits is tested the reaction time (RT) is a linear function of set size for responses to
- Aneither targets nor distracters
- Bdistracters but not targets
- Cboth targets and distracters
- Dtargets but not distracters
- Erecognition sets of more than six members but not for recognition sets of fewer than six members
11When an observer is asked to respond whether a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, if she makes her response based on the perceived recency of the probe then
- Awhen the probe is a target the time for the response is a function of the size of the study set
- Bthe response is slower when the study-set items are unfamiliar
- Cthe response is slower when the study set is smaller
- Dthe time for the response is not a linear function of the size of the study set
- Ewhen the probe is a distracter the time for the response is a function of the size of the study set
12To measure recognition,
- Aonly hits need to be counted
- Bboth correct rejections and false alarms must be counted
- Conly misses need to be counted
- Dboth hits and false alarms must be counted
- Eboth hits and misses must be counted
13A change in criterion results in a change
- Ain both hits and false alarms
- Bonly in hits
- Cin either hits or false alarms
- Donly in false alarms
- Ein perceived familiarity
14The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was given to participants learning a list of high and low frequency words. Compared with normal performance, later, the results of a recognition test were
- AThe difference in hits for low versus high frequency words was eliminated but the difference in false alarms remained the same
- BHits and false alarms were reduced only for high frequency words
- CThe difference in false alarms for low versus high frequency words was eliminated but the difference in hits remained the same
- DHits and false alarms were both reduced for both high and low frequency words
- EHits were reduced for high frequency words but increased for low frequency words
15 High school students and college students were shown, one at a time, 100, or 200 pictures cut from magazines at the rate of one picture every 5 seconds. An hour later, each student was shown a sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item.
- ARecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- BThe high school students recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of pictures studied.
- CRecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
- DThe high school students who studied only 100 pictures recognized the most study items.
- EThe group who studied only 100 pictures recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of test pairs they were shown.
16Students studied student ID pictures and were tested on both the same pictures and drivers license pictures of the same students. Half of the pictures were of classmates and half of the pictures were of strangers. Which test condition or conditions produced the poorest recognition?
- ADriver’s license pictures of both classmates and unfamiliar students.
- BDriver’s license pictures of unfamiliar students.
- CID and driver’s license pictures of the unfamiliar students.
- DRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- ERecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
17When an eyewitness views a line-up
- AThe probability of a hit is increased if the perpetrator is in the line-up and the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up.
- BThe probability of a hit is increased if the perpetrator is in the line-up and the eyewitness is hypnotized while there is no change in the probability of false alarm.
- CThe probability of a false alarm is increased only if the perpetrator is not in the line-up and the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up.
- DThe probability of a false alarm is increased regardless of whether the perpetrator is in the line-up when the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up.
- EThe probability of a false alarm is decreased if the perpetrator is not in the line-up and the eyewitness is hypnotized.
18Five college students each sorted 100 pictures into those they recognized from grade school and those they did not. Who had the best recognition of former grade school class mates.
- AAnn, with 70% hits and 30% false alarms
- BDonna, with 70% hits and 45% correct rejections
- CEvan, with 70% hits and 50% false alarms
- DCarl, with 70% hits and 40% false alarms
- EBetty, with 70% hits and 35% false alarms
19In a distracter task in which word trigrams must be recalled, performance will be the best on trial five if
- Athe words are from the same category as trial four, regardless of the category on trials one through three
- Bthe words are from a different category than on trials one through four
- Con trials one through five, the words of the trigram are always unrelated to each other in meaning
- Dthe words are from the same category as on trials one through four
- Eif there is a decline in performance on trials two, three, and four, because of spontaneous release from PI
20In a distracter task, the word trigrams on trials 1-4 have been rat-squirrel-raccoon, wolf-bear-skunk, lion-tiger-zebra, cow-sheep-horse. What recall cue will increase recall of the fourth trigram?
- AMammal
- BFarm
- CJungle
- DSuburban
- EForest
21Suppose that you are asked to report the names of all the different countries you can think of in one minute. You will report the most names during:
- Athe second 20 seconds
- Bthe first 20 seconds
- Cit depends on your recall strategy
- Dthe last 20 seconds
- Eabout the same number of names will be recalled during each interval
22Suppose a person was asked to generate instances of cities. An effective cue would be?
- Arepeating earlier responses
- Brepeating the word "city"
- Cthinking of secondary cues like the names of sports franchises
- Dall of the above
- Enone of the above
23I randomly divide the 50 states into two lists of 25 each. Let us call these list A and list B. One group of students is asked to recall all 50 states. The other group is shown the states on list A and asked to recall the remaining states.
- AThe students asked to recall all 50 states recall more states on list B.
- BThe students asked to recall all 50 states would recall more unfamiliar list B states but the students given list A would recall more familiar list B states.
- CThe students given list A recall more states on list B.
- DThe students asked to recall all 50 states would recall more familiar list B states but the students given list A would recall more unfamiliar list B states.
- EBoth groups of students recall the same number of list B states.
24Suppose that you were with a large group of people last Thursday night and once a day for the next five days you try to recall everyone you met that night.
- AThe level of recall will increase
- BThe level of recall will first decline and then increase
- CThe level of recall will stay the same
- DThe level of recall will decline
- EThe level of recall will first increase and then decline
25You received electric shock therapy (ECT) in January. Now no matter how hard you study, you are doing poorly on all your exams. You are suffering from a mild case of
- Adepression
- Bretrograde amnesia
- Canterograde amnesia
- Dthree of the other alternatives
- Enone of the above
26What is true about Korsakoff’s Syndrome?
- AKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the striatum
- BVery severe alcoholism is sufficient to cause Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
- CWhen poor eating is combined with excessive alcohol consumption to create a thiamine deficiency, the Wericke's phase of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome results
- DThe Korsakoff phase is followed by the Wernicke phase of the disorder
- EKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the liver
27A patient with Korsakoff's disease would
- Abe as likely as a normal individual to recall chipmunk if it were heard five minutes earlier
- Bbe as likely as a normal individual to recognize chipmunk as having been said earlier after a five minute interval
- Cbe as likely as a normal individual to say chipmunk when asked to name animals if chipmunk was mentioned by someone else, earlier
- Dbe less likely than a normal individual to know what a chipmunk is
- Emisidentify a picture of a squirrel as a chipmunk five minutes after hearing chipmunk
28You ask a person with Alzheimer's disease to remember the word diamond
- AHe would show an increased probability of saying baseball when asked to name sports
- BHe would recognize but not recall the diamond after a short filled delay
- CHe would show an increased probability of saying diamond when asked to name gem stones
- DHe would recognize and recall diamond after a short-filled delay
- EHe would recall being asked to remember diamond with confidence in response to the gem stone
29Huntington's disease is the result of damage in the
- Abasal ganglia
- BHuntington cortex
- Cmotor cortex
- Dthalamus
- Emidbrain
30An individual with Huntington's disease is most impaired on
- Alanguage
- Brecognition
- Crecall
- Dall of the above
- Enone of the above
31Some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease results from damage to the
- AHypothalamus
- BAmygdala
- CStriatum
- DThalamus
- ETemporal cortex
32Spiro (1982) found that autobiographical memory
- Amay be updated on the basis of new information presented immediately after an event.
- Bfor ordinary events is unlikely to be altered
- Ccannot be altered at the visual or emotional level by post-event verbal descriptions
- Dconsists of records of discrete experiences that may be misplaced but remain unchanged.
- Eis a permanent record of perceptual experience
33The creation of a false memory is a symptom of
- Afrontal lobe disease
- Bhysteria
- Cabuse
- Dnormal memory
- Eamnesia
34The effect of distributed study on training implies that you will remember what from your studies many years from now?
- Amaterial presented during your last semester of college
- Bmaterial presented in several courses
- Cmaterial presented during your first year of college
- Dmaterial presented during your first month of college
- Ematerial presented during your last month of college
35Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories suggests that a unique event is remembered accurately for
- Aever
- Bone week
- Cone year
- Dthree years
- Eone month
36A person who wakes up having forgotten the last week of his life but who otherwise retains his identity and long-term memory
- Awas suffering from retrograde amnesia but is now in a fugue state
- Bwas in a fugue state but is now suffering from retrograde amnesia
- Cwas motivated by some occurrence to forget
- Dis in a fugue state
- Eis suffering from organic retrograde amnesia
37Confabulation in conjunction with amnesia is a consequence of damage to
- Ato the temporal lobe only
- Bto both the frontal and parietal lobes
- Cto the frontal lobe only
- Dto both the temporal and occipital lobes
- Eboth the temporal and frontal lobes
38A traumatic event
- Ais encoded less accurately than a mundane event and not retained as long
- Bis encoded as accurately as a mundane event but not retained as long
- Cis encoded more accurately than a mundane event but not retained as long
- Dis encoded as accurately as a mundane event but retained longer
- Eis encoded less accurately than a mundane event but retained longer
39Who will have poor recall of the first three years of life because of poor story-telling ability early in life?
- Aonly an individual who suffered abuse during the first three years of life
- Bonly an Alzheimer patient
- Conly a Korsakoff patient
- Donly a normal individual
- Eeveryone
40Spiro found that one way that post-event information affects memory is
- Ainconsistent information immediately after the event causes immediate rapid forgetting of the event
- Bconsistent information immediately after the event causes an immediate increase in the amount that may be retrieved
- Cconsistent information immediately after the event increases it's retention interval
- Dcontradictory post-event information may cause confabulation
- Eeither consistent or contradictory post-event information may cause confabulation
41Assuming that you remain healthy, but never study it or anything related to it again, when will you forget all the content of your major?
- A20 years
- B30 years
- C40 years
- D10 years
- Enever
42A target used as a reminder may take 72 hours to completely retrieve the action to it for an infant at the age of
- Atwelve months
- Bnine months
- Csix months
- Dfifteen months
- Ethree-months
43When immediate recognition of from one to six letters is repeatedly tested the reaction time (RT) is a linear function of set size for responses to
- Adistracters initially and to targets after extensive practice
- Btargets initially and to distracters after extensive practice
- Cboth targets and distracters after extensive practice
- Dboth targets and distracters intially but only to targets after extensive practice
- Eboth targets and distracters intially but only to distracters after extensive practice
44When an observer is asked to respond whether a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, if she makes her response based on the perceived recency of the probe then
- Athe time for the response is not a linear function of the size of the study set for targets or distracters
- Bresponse time is a linear function of study-set size for distracters
- Cresponses are faster for targets
- Dresponses are faster for distracters
- Eresponse times are a linear function of study-set size for targets
45To measure recognition
- Aboth the number of targets reported as old and the number of distracters reported as old must be counted
- Bboth the number of distracters rejected as new and the number of distracters reported as old must be counted
- Conly the number of targets reported as old need be counted
- Donly the number of targets not reported as old need be counted
- Eboth the number of targets reported as old and the number of targets not reported as old must be counted
46When both hits and false alarms change in response to an incentive, this is evidence for a shift in
- Asensitivity
- Bperceived familiarity
- Cboth perceived familiarity and sensitivity
- Dcompliance
- Ecriterion
47The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was given to participants learning a list of words. Compared with normal performance, later, the results of a recognition test were
- AThe difference in hits for low versus high frequency words was eliminated
- BFalse alarms increased for both low and high frequency words
- CFalse alarms were reduced for high frequency words but increased for low frequency words
- DThe difference in false alarms for low versus high frequency words increased
- EHits and false alarms were reduced only for low frequency words
48 Four different groups of students were shown, one at a time, 200, or 400 pictures cut from magazines that were either indoor or outdoor scenes at the rate of one picture every 5 seconds. An hour later, each student was shown a sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item.
- AThe group tested on indoor scenes recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of pictures studied.
- BRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- CThe groups who studied only 200 pictures recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of whether they were shown indoor or outdoor scenes.
- DThe group who studied only 200 pictures and were tested on only 25 indoor scenes recognized the most study items.
- ERecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
49Students studied a set of magazine ads containing models and were tested on either the same ads or other magazine ads containing the same models. They had to report whether the model appeared in the study set. Half of the models were well known and half had not appeared in print before. Which test condition or conditions produced the poorest recognition?
- AThe new study ads of unfamiliar models
- BRecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
- CRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- DThe new study ads of both familiar and unfamiliar models.
- EBoth new and repeated pictures of the unfamiliar models.
50 When an eyewitness views a line-up containing the perpetrator
- AThe probability of a false alarm is decreased if the eyewitness is hypnotized.
- BThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is given sodium amytal.
- CThe probability of a false alarm is decreased if the eyewitness is told that the perpetrator may not be in the line-up.
- DThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up.
- EThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is hypnotized but the probability of a false alarm remains the same.
51Alumni were given 24 photos consisting of 12 former classmates and 12 strangers. They were asked to select the classmates Who best discriminated classmates from strangers?
- AEva, who selected 6 classmates and 0 strangers.
- BCheryl, who selected 6 classmates and 6 strangers
- CAlice, who selected 12 classmates and 12 strangers.
- DDebra, who selected 12 classmates and 0 strangers
- EBelle, who selected 12 classmates and 6 strangers.
52 Which question is someone with William’s syndrome most likely to get wrong?
- AHow tall are you?
- BDoes a cow go moo?
- CWhat year were you born?
- DWhat is your name?
- EWho is president?
53What is true about low versus high imagery statements?
- Ahigh imagery statements are verified faster
- Blow imagery statements are verified faster
- Creading interferes with the verification of high imagery statements
- Dreading interferes with the verification of low imagery statements
- Epeople learn to verify low imagery statements earlier in life than high imagery statements
54 Knowledge of college physics influenced
- Aintuitions about the motion of inanimate objects for all students
- Bintuitions about motion for all students
- Cintuitions about animal motion
- Dintuitions about motion for no students
- Eintuitions about motion for only some students
55The concrete version of a deductive reasoning problem may be
- Amore difficult with auditory presentation than with visual presentation
- Bthe same difficulty as a concrete inductive reasoning problem
- Ceasier than the abstract version
- Dmore difficult than an abstract inductive problem
- Emore difficult than the abstract version
56In a distracter task, the word trigrams on trials 1 – 4 have been James-Smith-White, Black-Duke-Rice, James-Bryant-Taylor, Kirk-McCoy-Spock. What cue will increase recall of the fourth trigram?
- AName
- BStar Trek
- CTrio
- DHouse
- EMonroe-Madison-Fletcher
57A person is trying to generate instances of the category animal. After 30 seconds of effort, you provide him with a cue. Performance would most likely improve over the no cue condition if you suggest
- Athe category name animal
- Bnames of animals you have already mentioned
- Cnames of animals you haven't mentioned (to help you think of other animals)
- Dnumbers
- Elocales where animals might exist
58Suppose that in order to help someone remember animal names you first told him a large number of animal names. When compared with recall when no animal names were given
- Arecall of the remaining animal names would increase
- Brecall of the remaining animal names would stay the same
- Crecall of the remaining familiar animal names would increase but recall of the remaining unfamiliar animal names would decrease.
- Drecall of the remaining animal names would decrease
- Erecall of the remaining familiar animal names would decrease but recall of the remaining unfamiliar animal names would increase.
59After a trip to the natural history museum on Sunday, Tony tried to remember all of the more than 50 dinosaurs he saw there for the next five days. On which day did he remember the most dinosaurs?
- Arecall will remain constant across all five days
- Bmonday
- Ctuesday
- Dfriday
- Ewednesday or thursday
60People are afraid of sharks because of the heuristic of
- Aavailability
- Brepresentativeness
- Clogical reasoning
- Dall of the above
- Enone of the above
61People are afraid of terrorist attacks because of
- Alogical reasoning
- Bthe availability heuristic
- Cthe lucifer effect
- Dthe von restorff effect
- Ethe representativeness heuristic
62One effect of familiarity on similarity judgements is
- ABecause of the additional similar features that are retrieved, a pair of familiar items may be judged as more similar than a pair of unfamiliar items
- BBecause of the additional dissimilar features that are retrieved, a pair of familiar items may be judged as more dissimilar than a pair of unfamiliar items
- CBecause of the fewer similar features that are retrieved, a pair of unfamiliar items may be judged as more dissimilar than a pair of familiar items
- DBecause of the fewer dissimilar features that are retrieved, a pair of unfamiliar items may be judged as more similar than a pair of unfamiliar items
- EBoth A and B
63Most people prefer
- AA sure loss of $50 to a 50% chance of a lost of $100
- BBetting $10 for a 50% chance of a total return of $15
- CA 50% chance of a gain of $100 to a sure gain of $50
- DA sure gain of $50 to a 50% chance of a gain of $100
- EA sure loss of $50 to a 33% chance of a $150 loss.
64One way that post-event information affects memory is
- Acontradictory post-event information may cause false memories of real-life events
- Bcontradictory post-event information may cause rapid forgetting of academic knowledge
- Ccontradictory post-event information may distort academic knowledge
- Dcontradictory post-event information may distort story recall in an intentional memory experiment
- Econsistent information immediately after the event causes an immediate increase in the amount recalled
65Spiro found that memory was affected by post-event information when
- AIt was presented six weeks after a fictional story in an intentional recall experiment
- BIt was presented two weeks after a narrative of a real event
- CIt was presented one day after a narrative of a real event
- DIt was presented one day after a fictional story
- EIt was presented immediately after a narrative of a real event in an incidental recall experiment
66False memories are the result of
- Aalien abductions
- Bevents in previous lives
- Cearly sexual abuse
- Dnormal retrieval processes
- Edepression
67What will you remember most accurately of your college life 25 years from now?
- Athe social events associated with graduation
- Bthe social events
- Cacademic facts from your senior courses
- Dacademic facts from your freshman courses
- Eacademic facts from your major
68Even if you never study or use it again, how long will you remember what you learned in your major subject?
- A32 years for a non-math subject but only 16 years for mathematics or a related field
- BAs long as you remain healthy, the rest of your life
- C16 years
- D4 years
- E8 years
69Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories suggests that a unique event may no longer be remembered accurately after
- Aone month
- Bsix months
- Cone week
- Dthree years
- Eone year
70The memories of traumatic events
- Aare immediately forgotten, but are recalled later through spontaneous recovery
- Bare remembered hyper-accurately as a result of the flashbulb event
- Care difficult to forget
- Dresist the effect of post event information
- Eare forgotten faster than memories of normal events as the result of suppression
71Because children below the age of four cannot construct and tell stories
- Athey are uninterested in hearing stories
- Bafterwards when they grow up they lack autobiographical memory for that period of their lives
- Cthey cannot draw realistic pictures
- Dearly memories undergo reminiscence and only emerge when they are older
- Ethey are uninterested in conversation
72When novices reason
- Athey rely on structural similarities to problems on other topics
- Bthey tend to rely on visual solutions
- Cthey initially tend to generate a great many possible solutions
- Dthey tend to rely on verbal solutions
- Ethey tend to think of other problems on the same or a similar topic
73The difference between an expert and novice chess player is
- Athe expert sees the board in three dimensions
- Bthe expert follows a consistent plan
- Cthe expert explores more moves
- Dthe expert can better predict his opponents moves
- Ethe expert explores a few good moves more deeply
74A first-year college student has trouble buying all the course materials and in getting all the assignments done on time. You guess that the part of his brain most likely to be damaged is the
- Aanterior cyngulate gyrus
- Bthalamus
- Cangular gyrus
- Dprefrontal cortex
- Eparietal cortex
75 Realizing that the banana was out of reach Sultan broke a branch off of a nearby tree and used it to bring the banana into reach. This is an example of
- Agenerate and test method
- Bnone of the above
- Cmeans-end analysis
- Drelease from functional fixedness
- Eall of the above
76Which question is someone with William's Syndrome likely to get wrong?
- Ahow long is a pencil?
- Bdo you like to eat cake?
- Cwho is the president?
- Ddo you have any brothers or sisters?
- Edo you go to school?
77Knowledge of college physics influences
- Askill at playing billiards for some students
- Bskills at driving a car for some students
- Cskill at playing golf for some students
- Dskill at video gaming for some students
- Eintuitions about the motion of objects for some students
78The concrete version of a deductive reasoning problem
- Ais often less difficult than the concrete version of an inductive reasoning problem
- Bis often easier than the abstract version
- Cis often more difficult than the concrete version of an inductive reasoning problem
- Dis often more difficult than the abstract version
- Eis often more difficult than the visual version of the problem
79 What is intelligence?
- Athe ability to generate new ideas and imagine novel solutions to problems
- Bgeneral reasoning ability
- Cgeneral learning ability
- Da general problem solving ability
- Ea general ability to perform cognitive tasks
80The results of cross-sectional studies indicate that past the third decade of life, which abilities decline?
- Aprocessing speed
- Bverbal working memory
- Cvisual working memory
- Dlong-term verbal learning
- Eall of the above
81For the last 80 years scores on intelligence tests
- Ahave increased around the world for all ethnic groups and at all levels of performance.
- Bhave increased for some ethnic groups and remained the same for others
- Chave decreased for some ethnic groups and remained the same for others
- Dhave remained the same around the world for all ethnic groups and at all levels of performance.
- Ehave increased for some ethnic groups and decreased for others
82The three components of the triarchic theory are
- Adeclarative, procedural, and emotional intelligence
- Bcrystallized and fluid intelligence
- Canalytical, practical and creative intelligence
- Dperceptual, semantic, and motor intelligence
- Everbal, quantitative, and emotional intelligence
83If it seems more likely that a college athlete will someday become a high school coach and teacher than just a high school, this is because of
- Athe availability heuristic
- Bthe representativeness heuristic
- Cdeductive reasoning
- Dtheir prospective likelihoods
- Ethe probability of each occurence
84 Two familiar things may be judged both more similar and more dissimilar than two unfamiliar things because
- Afamiliarity sometimes breeds contempt
- Bstrong opposite judgements like love and hate are actually close together
- Cboth more similar and more dissimilar features can be recalled for them
- Dthe same features are weighted differently in different contexts
- Efamiliar features can be viewed positively or negatively
85Sending a 100-man unit into combat, most officers would prefer a combat plan
- Ainsuring the survival of 50 soldiers to one that had a 50% chance of insuring the survival of everyone
- Bthat had a 75% chance of 100% casualties to one that insured 25% casualties
- Cthat had a 50% chance of all the soldiers surviving to a 100% chance of only half of the soldiers surviving
- Dthat insured 50% casualties to one that had a 50% chance of 100% casualties
- Eboth alternatives A and B
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